Year 3: Thank you!

 Thank you so much to everyone that was able to attend our learning exposure this afternoon. It was lovely to see so many families and Mr Spracklen, Mrs March, Ms Evans and Miss White came and saw the children's work also. I hope you enjoyed seeing your child's hard work in a variety of different subjects. As Mr Spracklen said, the children's handwriting is amazing and I am so proud of everything that they have achieved so far in Year 3. They have been so passionate about saving the Rainforest and this shows in their leaflet and persuasive letter writing. We wanted to do our bit to support the Rainforest and so this morning we made Palm oil free cupcakes. Thank you to everyone that purchased one or even one of Jessica's delicious cookies, we made £50 which will be donated to 'Amazon conservation' which is a charity that supports different projects in the Amazon. 

Mrs Thorpe, Mr MacBean, Miss Alston, Mrs Hall and Mrs Scott. 

Year 3: Spellings

 

Year 3: Busy learning and writing!

We've had a busy couple of weeks! Thank you to Sherene and Sarah's Mum for coming into class to talk about the Islamic pilgrimage to the Hajj. The children learnt about The Five Pillars of Islam. 

In Science we have been learning about the life cycle of plants. We have replanted our Science experiment and have put the pumpkin seeds in the poly tunnel, hopefully we'll be able to plant these soon into our pumpkin patch. 

In English we are working on our leaflet all about the Rainforest. We would like to invite you into school at 3pm on Wednesday 24th May so that the children can show you their leaflets and letters as well as looking at their other work they have been concentrating on this half term. If you can make this or even cannot make this then please can you let a member of Year 3 know. We can arrange for the children without any parents/ family members to share their work with, to share their work with a member of staff or another set of children in the school and they can bring their leaflets home. 

Our author trip to THS yesterday was so inspiring. Cressida spoke so enthusiastically and all the children were engaged with her talking about the books she has written and that have been made into films. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend 

The Year 3 team 

Year 3: End of the week and information for next week

 At the end of last week we started to use our new Science books. Our focus this half term is on plants so we have observed if the plants that we have already planted have sprouted yet and then went on the hunt in our school grounds for the different stages of a dandelion. 

In PE we had basketball with coach Luca outside in the sunshine. We had the RNLI come in and give an assembly about how to stay safe by the coast. The children learnt about what the different flags mean and what to do if they were caught in a rip current. 

Thank you to everyone that bought in their reading records and PE kits this week. We are still missing quite a few of these. 

I held the parent information session on Friday, thank you to the parents that were able to make this. A recording of the session will be shared with you. 

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend, the strike day means that we will see the majority of the children in school on Wednesday. Please note that Friday afternoon (5th) is our Coronation celebration on the field. You should have received your invite for this (in a brown envelope that went home on Wednesday). If no one is available to come in for your child I (Mrs Thorpe) will be there. Children will be able to go home with their adult from 2.30pm . 

🌻The Year 3 team 🌻

Year 3: Home learning week 2

 

Year 3: Bugfest visit today

 Wow what an amazing visit we had from Nick from Bugfest! We learnt all about some of the creatures found in the rainforest and the desert. The children got to stroke or hold a number of creatures such as: stick insects, beetles, hissing cockroaches, giant snails, millipedes and saw from a distance scorpions, centipedes and tarantulas. 

Here is a selection of pictures from the morning. A massive thank you to Nick from Bugfest for teaching the children so many facts about the creatures and making learning so interesting. I especially found the skin of the bird eating tarantula amazing to look at! The teachers were even brave enough to hold one (the smaller of the two!).